Executive Producer – MMO Experience

Job ID: BE719685

Job Title: Executive Producer – MMO Experience

Salary:  Open

Location: Northern California

Job Description:

Our client is looking for a passionate and visionary Executive Producer to lead an experienced team of game creators in developing an original intellectual property utilizing their groundbreaking server-based technology. This person will be responsible for providing the vision for and motivating the team leaders within art, design, audio, and engineering on a large scale MMO project. They will consistently make informed decisions about the need to balance quality, budget, and schedule throughout the development cycle.

Responsibilities:

· will manage production at both a strategic and tactical level

· will motivate and inspire the team to greatness

· will take a long-term view towards product development. Insure that the game is developed with an eye towards innovation, expansion, localization, and product line extensions

· will study appropriate genres, competition and available talent to have insight into future scenarios

· will be responsible for making high level decisions to ensure the project meets the quality, budgetary, and scheduling goals of the company

· will ensure that the franchise maintains creative and technical objectives, and are aligned with consumer demand

· will conduct a thorough review and analysis of design docs, modifying to meet consumer demand and franchise plan goals

· will use mature problem-solving skills to make recommendations and decisions that have a positive impact on the game development cycle

· will communicate with team and directs all external partners to meet project deliverables and deadlines

· will establish and assigns task objectives from defined project goals

· will perform regular due diligence and milestone reviews and guide the team in taking necessary action in all areas of production to ensure the integrity of the game

· will be a primary check on the quality of the game

· will be the franchise spokesman both internally and externally

· will generate and maintain budgets based on the projects schedule and goals

· will establish senior-level relationships with the Marketing and Sales groups

Qualifications:

· must have MMO development experience or MMO Live Team experience

· must have the ability to develop, communicate and get buy-in on a strong product vision

· must have proven leadership skills to lead a team to execute on product development, including managing and mentoring direct reports on a ~100 person team

· must have 8 to 10 years of project development experience

· must have 5 or more years management experience with exceptional on time and profitability history

· must have credit on two or more shipped titles in the role of Executive Producer on high profile products

· must have a mastery of all aspects of game production (management, planning, scheduling, budgeting, staffing, programming/technology, design, art, audio, video, localization, and QA)

· must have excellent listening and communication skills coupled with the ability to communicate team and project goals in a clear, concise manner

· must be capable of identifying risks; takes appropriate steps to resolve difficulties including changes to work methods, technologies and project schedules

· must have ability to exercise strong judgment in analyzing, appraising, evaluating and solving problems of a difficult procedural, organizational, administrative or technical nature

· must be highly organized, professional, and efficient with outstanding attention to detail

· should have a strong history of RPG development

· should have experience establishing a new IP

Company Culture:

· Game Publisher and Developer

· Very well funded

· Leading MMO developer

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